Popper’s Argument against Spengler’s “Historicism”
Oswald Spengler Society Journal (
forthcoming)
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Abstract
§ I presents a detailed version of “Popper’s Basic Argument.” § 2
shows why Marx’s theory of historical development is a paradigm
case of the kind of “historicism” that is refuted by Popper’s argument.
§ 3 explains the crucial difference between Marx’s and Spengler’s
respective theories that makes the former but not the latter fall to
Popper’s criticism. § 4 argues that the inapplicability of Popper’s
argument to Spengler’s type of theory is obvious from the beginning.